TYPEMATCHSEO

TYPEMATCH.

V2.1

700
400
PAIRING ID: TRI-SOR // ETHOS: SERIF + SERIF

Systematizing Trirong & Sorts Mill Goudy

Build a mono-category system where Trirong leads and Sorts Mill Goudy keeps long-form content legible.

Display Face

Trirong

Weight: 700

Body Face

Sorts Mill Goudy

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Trirong brings thai, serif, classic energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Sorts Mill Goudy absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its old-style, goudy, revival texture and dependable rhythm. Together they create a typography stack that scales from high-impact landing pages to dense documentation without retooling your CSS tokens.

Typographic Hierarchy & Scale

H1The Quick Fox
H2The Quick Fox
H3The Quick Fox
PThe quick brown fox jumps over...
Dark Context
Aa

High contrast negative space.

Accent
Gg

Legibility on high-chroma.

Pairing Strategy

Systematizing Trirong & Sorts Mill Goudy

Build a mono-category system where Trirong leads and Sorts Mill Goudy keeps long-form content legible.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Trirong brings thai, serif, classic energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Sorts Mill Goudy absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its old-style, goudy, revival texture and dependable rhythm. Together they create a typography stack that scales from high-impact landing pages to dense documentation without retooling your CSS tokens.

Trirong thrives as a headline face thanks to its thai, serif, classic qualities. Use weights 700–900 for crisp editorial lockups.
Sorts Mill Goudy excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its old-style, goudy, revival traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.2 modular scale and reserve Trirong for H1–H3 while Sorts Mill Goudy powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

  • High-growth SaaS landing pages that require thai hero statements with trustworthy product copy.
  • Editorial magazines and thought-leadership hubs where Trirong can dramatize pull quotes while Sorts Mill Goudy keeps 1,500-word essays skimmable.
  • Conversion funnels or onboarding flows that need Sorts Mill Goudy's old-style voice to balance Trirong's attention-grabbing display.

Accessibility Notes

Maintain a minimum 4.5:1 contrast ratio for Sorts Mill Goudy body copy and loosen letter-spacing to 0.01em for uppercase Trirong moments. Pairing different categories demands disciplined color pairing—test both light and dark themes to ensure Sorts Mill Goudy does not bloom at small sizes.

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'Trirong', serif;
  --tm-body-family: 'Sorts Mill Goudy', serif;
  --tm-header-weight: 700;
  --tm-body-weight: 400;
  --tm-header-tracking: -0.01em;
  --tm-body-tracking: -0.005em;
}
Heading scale: clamp(2.75rem, 3.6vw, 5.25rem) for H1, clamp(1.5rem, 2.8vw, 3rem) for H2, and keep paragraph size at 1rem–1.125rem with 1.6 line-height.
Component guidance: Buttons inherit Trirong at 700 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on Sorts Mill Goudy with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does Trirong make sense as the lead font?

Trirong owns the emotional register of this system. Its thai, serif, classic profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Sorts Mill Goudy show up?

Sorts Mill Goudy is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its old-style, goudy, revival qualities reduce fatigue on dense layouts.

Does this pairing support complex localization?

Yes—both families are available on Google Fonts with generous glyph coverage. Test cyrillic/latin accents early, but most Latin-based locales and UI patterns are fully supported.